I got a vaccination against cooties at about 13. Thats when I started noticing the girls. Thank god for that vaccination!!

I would agree that all of the listed are infectious disease concerns. Menegitis and TB are more communicable as they are airborn, however, the hepatitis virus can live outside the body for some time so that too is a concern. Regardless all of them are a concern. I wouldnt be worrying about ebola or some hemmoragic fever nearly as much as the nasties listed.

[QUOTE=Lewiston2FF;1192246]I got a vaccination against cooties at about 13. Thats when I started noticing the girls. Thank god for that vaccination!!

Oooo, I need one of those for my son. He's 13, a budding athlete, and is in the gym for four hours with over 100 girls every day five days a week. I'm gonna need a double vaccination, and quite possibly, a BB gun.

I got a vaccination against cooties at about 13. Thats when I started noticing the girls. Thank god for that vaccination!!

Oooo, I need one of those for my son. He's 13, a budding athlete, and is in the gym for four hours with over 100 girls every day five days a week. I'm gonna need a double vaccination, and quite possibly, a BB gun.

For me about 2-3 weeks I got a boil in my left arm pit about the size of a baseball. When the dr lanced it, it sprayed across the room. My wife got it on here L knee. Over all this went on off and on for about 5 months.

MRSA climbed to the top of my list after I read an article about how some of the strains are morphing into flesh-eating bacteria, combine that with the fact that last month I had a doctor inform me that MRSA can be transmitted by earwax. Now I constantly sterilize the earpieces on my stethoscope and use sanitizing wipes, we carry on the truck, on any pair I need to borrow before and after I use them. I can't remember want the wipes are called but they're advertised as able to kill just about everything; Viruses, bacteria, fungi it's supposed to kill them all.

Meningitis: Seriousness depends on the form but generally preventable with normal precautions.

H1N1: Not an issue. The majority of seasonal flu for the last decade was some form of H1N1. If you're referring to 2009-H1N1-Swine Flu, there's a vaccination and normal precautions will prevent it anyway.

Hep A & B: Not an issue. Vaccinations are available; anyone in EMS should have them.

Hep D: Rare in the US, not easy to catch, and preventable with normal precautions.

Of the infectious diseases listed, I'd be the most concerned about TB in areas where it's known to occur as it usually requires a slightly higher level of precaution that the rest. I'd worry about flu, simply because it's so universally found and easy to catch. Most of the rest are easily preventable with routine use of PPE, good work practices, and proper engineering controls.